Dan continues to be my new favorite, he has such an air of confidence about him and a comforting presence. Like Dan shows up and you just know things are going to be fine.
@Олег Бёрт By following trades do you mean copying her trades,as its done in etoro? Are you giving her your money or the money stays on your account? I have heard about copying trades but have not looked into it but I have an idea of what it is.
Linus to Dan fixing the RGB strips: "This is not a table, I was hoping to use this monitor for something" Dan finding Linus in the next scene sitting on it: "Ah, its a chair"
Dude I seriously love Dan, he's my favorite crew addition in a very long time. I love his dry humor combined with his role as the resident problem fixer lol
Linus!!! Just turn the key lights 180 and bounce them off the walls. You’ll get a much softer glow and shadow and way more even lighting. It’s such a simple fix. I’m not sure where along the lines people got the idea to beam the lights directly at your face 😅
@@N0N0111 Ceiling down lights create unpleasant and harsh face shadows. Need diffuse light from the front, above the head level. So key lights bounce off the walls is a great solution.
Because those lights are designed to do EXACTLY that. And if you have dark walls, it REALLY doesn't work, even if the lights aren't designed like those key lights. I've also seen the people that do it that way, their lighting looks horrendous.
yep i just use a tiny like 10 watt LED desklamp and shine it straight at the ceiling and get diffuse white light throughout my room. saves power AND looks and feels better than the actual room light.
Great video, I just don't think you understood how the electrician wired your shelves. The electrician didn't do anything wrong, the ran low voltage wiring to every shelf space and on the other end(your closet space) you have all of your low voltage cables and a single nmd90 14/2 with merrets on the end. The idea is when you have decided on your driver, the electrician would mount the driver, dress and fasten the loose cables away from the water and gas lines and then make the necessary terminations. Having diffusers already installed and with low voltage wips(length of cable located for terminating the strips)already in place, it was well thought out. I believe the receptacle is just for plugging in anything you want in. Ps you guys have an awesome show!😁
This is exactly what they did, exactly how it is done professionally, biggest complaint I have about dealing with customers like Linus is they think they know a lot more than they do and when looking at something that isn't finished they can jump to conclusions and come up with back assward solutions to solve the problem. A much simpler solution to this would be to buy the correct led tape lights and an LED controller that can control them all at once and be installed inside that small area where it was intended.
@@crunchbar777 Yes, the install is all wrong. From a professional theatre/film set lighting pov. Run 5 core to each shelf and have a small rack of RGBW controllers. City Theatrical make some really nice ones. OR use pixiel tape and map and control with a media server.
This dude Dan is a life saver! I love it when there are people around who you contact with a problem and they just come to you with a solution and carry it through. Props
For the RGBs, using WLED on a QuinLED Dig and 12v sk6812 LED strip is my favorite setup so far! A Dig Uno can control ~500-600 pixels so you could most likely get the whole cabinet lit with one controller (depending on the strip density). Definitely worth checking out.
SK6812 are 5V. Any 5V strip would be fine as I assume he won’t care about individual pixels for a bookshelf. WLED would be way better than this though, I agree. Problems with large LED quantities would be 1) connecting them together as they’re not really wired for that and 2) power injection. He’d have been better off with some cheap WLED controllers like the Athom (the small one). It would be smaller and easier to hide than that massive box. I’d also have gone for a higher pixel density - 60/m minimum
Maaan, if one random towel is dropped on that brick, they are gonna have a bad time. Not to mention a kid might touch that. I hope they really thought this through
Linus: *Gets on his employee's cases for all the stuff stolen from the office* Also Linus: *Proudly talks about all the stuff stolen from work he's using in his upgraded setup* Linus: "Why are you using this monitor as a table?" Also Linus: *Uses the monitor as a chair* This video was hilarious
Because he thinks he's better than them. Shame how so many workers support the petty bourgeoisie while they profit off them. All private businesses are unethical. Only three types of firm should exist, sole proprietorships, coops, and state enterprises.
Awwww Linus! I do cabinetry lighting like this for a living. The contractor ALMOST had it nailed! You do want the aluminum tracks, you do want the wiring ran to a single location like it was, however, you wanted it to be an 18/3 cable (power, ground, and data). I like to run them to Quindig Controllers running WLED. Use BTF Lighting SK2812’s 60LED/M with warm white channel (you can make the color cooler by adding in the RGB combination if you need to). When you solder your wires to the RGBW strips, use 3/8” optically clear adhesive lined heatshrink to protect the solder joints. This clear heatshrink can cover the first LED in the strip just fine and won’t change the light pattern as its optically clear. Use Meanwell 5V PSU’s and you’d be set! You should look into it!!!!!
@@jpw5996 I would still sell them for half the price he paid for them and replace it all with a WLED setup instead. It's truly a no brainer. Not only that I'm pretty sure he used a zwave controller at each and every single strip. Where he probably could have used a couple ESP32 to control every strip in the unit. Wife didn't seem thrilled about seeing control boxes or power supplies in the cubbies. I would have also went with something much higher amps and not a brick like he purchased in case I wanted to add something else later on. Not only that what kind of control will you get out of those zwave kits? I'm sure you can get it working with home assistant but what if you wanted to say add it into something through e1.31, DMX, UDP, or any lighting software like artemis, openrgb, etc? I made myself a 10 port ARGB hub using WLED and ESP32 so i would have a hub i could connect 9 fans and my cooler ARGB independently controlled. This pairs nicely with my under desk strips, ceiling strips, and 3d printed ARGB signs. Heres my office using all WLED stuff. ruclips.net/video/LMyi9RYDg1Q/видео.html Ceiling lights were turned off because my camera was washed out with the light from it also.
@@krown466 Selling will be hard with all those plugs desoldered. Also i dont think everybody needs the type of control you are speaking about. Most people are fine with setting a color with alexa or their smartphone and leaving it at that. (we are not them and its fine, but you cant expect everyone to tinker with this that much.) Not to mention the additional difficulties you have with going to 5V that other people already pointed out. Linus said in the video he wont change the 2 pole cables, so it really isnt an option anyways...
@@jpw5996 if they’re straight into a cabinet behind that wall he may be able to tape on an 18/3 to the 2 wire and pull new wire straight in without any gutting. This is Linus I would assume he’d want patterns and effects and better integration than just a z-wave controlled basic single color setup.
@@krown466 you’re right, control it with HomeAssistant WLED integration and a zwave dongle to speak back to his switches or whatever other type of control schema he has....
If you want something fun since you're using Home Assistant to change your light colour, you CAN setup automations for your lights to be whatever colour you'd like and then use the Home Assistant API functions and your stream deck to call that automation to change your lights however you want while streaming 🙂
The problem with shotgun microphones for a desk setup, and something I wish was tested in the video, is that they will pick up keyboard noise. You can use something like Nvidia Broadcast to fix that but it's still not ideal since that affects your voice quality as well
The biggest problem with Nvidia Broadcast in my opinion is not the voice quality (because your voice is already compressed in Discord), it's the added latency. When I'm playing RL with comms, I disable my Nvidia Broadcast to reduce latency.
I started streaming about a year ago, my partner does filming and editing and we are musicians with lots of equipment at home so I had a good choice of microphones and cameras. I straight away went with a smaller Rode NTG4+ microphone cause I knew I did not want a mic to be visible on camera or to be right in front of my face because I too fidget a lot during streams. I often get people commenting on how good my sound is and people amazed that there is no mic to be seen. I happen to use the same camera as Linus gets here, it's my partners main camera and it's amazing. We have a charger that goes into the battery slot as if you use just a charging cable whilst the battery is in I think it cuts that batteries life so this way it gets powered without the need for a battery. Super psyched to see Linus go with a similar set up to my own, highly recommend the microphone decision however there are much smaller boom style microphones such as the Rode NTG series that won't take up so much space. Also, what is a table?
I love the open, that was great! Linus must really be losing it with all the stuff going on all at once in his, and his families, life atm. Here's to hoping we have a sane Linus after the dust settled!
Just a heads up Linus. The AW3423DW has been having some relatively minor software problems. If you were sent the original firmware version MOB01, some people are having problems with the "pixel refresh" popup shutting off power to the display after it runs instead of going back to standby. It also counts standby time towards the refresh timer. So you can use the monitor for a bit, step away for a few minutes, monitor will go into standby and run pixel refresh, and then turn itself off. It will require you to hit the power button to turn it back on. Dell originally was saying this was "intended" for power saving reasons, but then reneged on it and have fixed it in a newer firmware MOB02. The problem is they have chosen not to provide a user side firmware update option with the monitor. The ONLY solution is to send the monitor back and get a replacement. In a premium monitor from a premium company it's totally unacceptable to not allow user side firmware updates. This seems to be becoming more common. Would love to see a video on some of these flaws and pressure Dell to cut it out and provide a user side firmware update option. There's also fan noise on a lot of these (like clicking) that can be very noticeable in a quiet room. I've never heard of a monitor with fan noise. They say it's normal. Otherwise it's the best monitor I've ever owned, plays incredible, looks incredible, but again at the price I don't expect these flaws and the no firmware updates thing is unacceptable. www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/AW3423DW-please-let-us-update-firmware/td-p/8222694
@@jkteddy77 I did the return and they overnighted a new monitor to me. The software issues were fixed minus the not able to update thing. Problem I had with the new one is I have the fan noise problem. My original was actually silent. I don't want to return it again out of a similar fear to you that they send a refurb instead of new...
Use the existing in wall wiring to pull through a 6 conductor cable, even something like cat6, then solder the ends of the cat6 to the strips and have the control boxes in the closet. Gives the clean installation you're looking for and is fairly simple and straightforward.
I would have used bare ws2812b led strips with esp32's running WLED for the RGB strips. It's cheaper much more customizable controllable from home assistant locally and open source. For a kind of out of the box solution you can buy or build a quinLED board.
This. I also just found out about WLED and i love it. very easy to install and customise and control over your WLAN. Also only needs 5V and only one microcontroller for like up to 4000 leds. Only thing one should not forget ist to use fuses in front of any led segment (in general not just with WLED and ws2812b) since bigger power supplies internal fuse may not trip when a short inside the led strip occours -just to be on the safe side
@@z1dlukasw.666 Realistically you can do around 800 per port with 4 ports so 2400 before it is not abel to sustain the target 42 fps. And there is a limit of around 1200 LEDs if you use ledmaps for now in version 13.2.
@@patrickpopp9197 also completly true, the 4000 was more a theoretical max. it was just more or less to prove a point, that there is no need for a control box on every shelf whilst still keeping the control over each segment /shelf individually.
Yep, after doing a shitload of research last year, this is pretty much exactly what i landed on. The one thing that surprised me the most was how much Wattage you need to supply longer lengths of LED’s. kinda blew my mind.
for optical hdmi (2.1), I used a phoossno gen2 cable I grabbed off Amazon. Comes in up to 20m, and the gen2 version will do 4K 120Hz + VRR with RTX 3000 series on my LG CX
Hey Linus, a good trick for streaming lights: bounce them off the wall. Much easier on the eyes, and a nice softer look. Also, for indoors, I'd recommend a hyper-cardioid mic (looks like a short shotgun) like the Audio-Technica AT4053B.
I'm with Linus on this one. On my personal PC I like to just do one thing at a time as well. It's a habit from the old days when RAM was much more limited and CPUs were all single core, it was helpful to religiously close out programs that you weren't actively using. However, it also helps me focus on the thing I'm doing at the moment.
I turn off my extra monitor when I'm playing a single player game, but if I'm playing multiplayer games I keep discord on my vertical side monitor. If I streamed I would definitely use my side monitor to do chat/obs/etc.
You should have requested 2 core flex cable to each shelf. With a void where the cable comes through, so that you can crimp the flex cable onto the led tape ‘tails’ and then lose the excess cable and crimps into the void
Ah yes all my normal friends order $1000 monitors to AB test and scrutinize with their multi thousand dollar computers and cameras. Just cracking a cold one with the relatable bois.
You are talking about a youtuber who purposefully modeled a professional studio to imitate a kitchen, so people feel like they are still filming in an actual kitchen ;))
The typical reason for not using shotgun microphones indoors is to prevent phase issues. The concept is similar to noise cancellation and the shotguns use this to create their narrow pickup pattern. The longer, the more extreme this effect. In a well treated and large room, this isn't a big issue, but I'd still use a small shotgun or even pencil style microphone for your use case instead. Just like the other commenter Nils Gröne pointed out, those shorter mics will also give you a broader pickup area and allow you to move around more.
I would put the shotgun mic above your head pointing down. I think you get a better sound and it would clear up more space on the top of the desk! Then if you ever decide to put an extra LCD screen for group or live stream chats that would be a huge improvement upgrade in your setup. Just a suggestion!
Drill some holes so you can run one long strip through multiple shelf areas. Also you've put that box in the top left corner, when the top right is far less visible.
Great video. I prefer the 34" ultrawide. TV's just don't cut it. I was regretting my 34" UW purchase when I saw some people using 43" top notch TV's instead, but after seeing sacrifices, I will stick with my 34" UW. I tried hooking it up to 65" 4k TV in living room just to see difference, and sat back appropriate distance, but I could not get used to it. The rest of your choices I agree with. But it's your setup, so it's your choice! Enjoy! You deserve it! (PS: I really like your planned family gaming room downstairs!)
As far as microphone goes, you should really look into a small diaphragm condenser microphone. This will do a better job at getting a more natural sounding reverb in the room without any coning effect. It will also allow you to have a little more freedom of movement and you want to be as still for to sound good
Yup. Small encil-style condensers are best way to go to get perfect audio indoors. Rode NT5, Oktava MK012 etc.. Shotguns is causing all phase issues indoors because of voice that is bouncing around. It is only suitable for long distance outdoor shooting when you want to grab audio from couple meters away.
For the leds, I have a tip :) WLED Buuut it is for the hobbyist or a Dan to set it up. Not too difficult but you could make it completely perfect. Short leads and everything. One controller if you wanted to and just one power brick :)
You mean the microcontroller software and cell phone app? Yes that is great. I spent months writing my own and then discovered the excellent WLED project that was leaps and bounds above my own, so I just switched to that. For those wondering, you take an esp32 or esp8266 and you can even flash it from the browser (no idea how they managed that!) and then just pick a data pin(or several) and connect that to the data pin on the strand, the voltage goes to the led, check if your esp board can handle 12v Vin with it’s onboard 3.3 v regulator ( it might burn out trying to dump the extra voltage as heat) and you can power both, or get a $1 buck 12v to 5v or 3.3v converter to power the esp board. Requires no microcontroller knowledge at all, but perhaps a touch of very simple soldering.
Oh gosh just got to the end of the video, he has 10 different controller boxes. To adjust color/brightness for the whole wall will be such a hassle. Mine as well just have gone with the single color strip, the wife approval rating will drop to zero after learning how the RGB is adjusted. It's too impractical, c'mon Linus!
@@altimmons Yep! Exactly! Tho I used a 5V rgbww strip instead. You can connect both to a simple 5V psu. Works like a charm. One thing that I would suggest is putting a fixed ip on the controller. Without, the controller sometimes bugs out and you lose your connection. I also have seen people intergrate WLED with home assistant. But I'm not sure to what extent that is possible but for Linus's smart home that would also be a improvement as well. (edit: grammer)
@@blakeXYZ Not just that but the interface that this is using, linus needed to adjust the numbers of the xolors to get a new color. That's soo much worse then wled. And probably less responsive not to mention the controllers you were talking about😂😂
Ok, I've never been more sold on OLED than after seeing the monitor from 10:12 onwards- in a best kind of sense, it looks like someone just pasted the screencap on a take from actual camera, no viewing angles, no glow... love it! Shame I can't afford it but you know, details
To stop the HDMI ports breaking the best option, I think, is to cage the camera, then clamp the hdmi cable and use a male to female adapter like the SmallRig 3021 Micro HDMI 2.0 adapter. Having a permanent adapter attached to your camera will mean you break the $10 adapter well before you break the HDMI port, leaving the clamp to be your safety net for the Micro HDMI port on the camera
Important thing about 42" C2: it's actually not Evo even though box says otherwise. That's because most of this size C2s don't have Evo/WBE/EX panel but older WBC, there are some that does but to not have image discrepancy between two exact same tvs they are held back by software. To have newer panel without software holding back you have to go 55"+. On top of that 42" has lower aperture ratio which means it's even dimmer, it doesn't even reach 700 nits which combined with older panel which isn't really more resistant to burn in, means that Dell is probably much better choice. LG still has some advantages but if you want 42" WOLED there are many great alternatives on the market or coming in the near future.
Dan really needs his own nerdy channel with really nerdy deep dives into stuff. Like soldering for nerds and stuff like that. He really does well on screen.
13:56 FYI @linus tech tips when pulling cable, add to to wire, cable, etc..another pull point “rope” so replaces one used & that way, ALWAYS WILL HAVE a way to pull, w/o removing a cable/wire especially if temp that lasts 6 months or more & then gotta pull another & no pull cable, b/c used & forget to pull another w/ last run😉
@@terria8825 lol not when you use a 90”x40” butcher block for a desk. After using it a few weeks, best thing I ever bought. Coming from a 34” ultras wide predator.
I just do not understand how you spend ten thousand dollars on this and won't spend a fraction more to get something made by Herman Miller. I work and play from home, at the same desk with the help of a USB peripheral switcher. I can (and, unfortunately/fortunately, do) often end up sitting in my Aeron for 12 hours of my waking hours without discomfort. ...and Linus is putting up with "My butt falls asleep after about an hour." I'd rather play on a 10 year old PC with my current chair than a 1-month old PC with the trash he's going to sit on.
id say that rgb isnt that much of a deal unlike back in the early days, its more on accent lighting and or just 1 or 2 colors in the background now. ya know, minimalist
I think it’s funny how he give all his employ’s a hard time for having things from the office in there house in the intel extreme upgrades but everything in his house is from the office…
17:45 why not just use (or make, you have the budget for that) some kind of tiny dongle that you leave ON the camera and plug the external monitors into that ? at least only the dongle will fail over time and not the actual port on the camera
On the multiple monitors at home thing. I was always a 2, 3 or even 4 monitor guy. I felt like I *needed* that many monitors to fit everything in. Then my work bought me a 32:9 monitor and paired with PowerTools Fancyzones for snapping, my goodness I never want to go back to multiple monitors. It is SO nice to have everything on one monitor.
Need "port savers" for your cameras. Short adapter cables that get attached/glued whatever that don't get plugged/unplugged from the camera, but can be plugged into. If the port saver cable wears out it can easily be replaced then (one plug/unplug cycle on the camera vs 1000s)
I went with a pencil mic for my setup. It's similar to a shotgun in that it much more directional and can be placed farther away from your face, but made more for indoor applications, since it doesn't have all those side fins to pick up (and, in practice, reject) off-axis sounds, which is what a shotgun mic does. You just put a foam filter on it to avoid plosives, in case you ever talk directly towards it, and you're good to go. If you like to ASMR, or talk intimately with your friends, you stick a deadcat on that bad boy and you're golden. Though, it does SLIGHTLY muffle your voice.
It's not a cheap monitor, but it's like half the price of existing proper HDR LCD monitors, so it was still a big step forward in that regard. It also looks like it's forced upcoming HDR LCD monitors to charge far less than they could have a year or two ago, when monitors like the ASUS PG32UQX could get away with charging $3,000 USD.
I have not tried the secret lab chair, but most gaming chairs i have tried actually are pretty bad, for that money you can usually get an office chair with proper lumbar support instead of the janky adaptation most gaming chairs have But again every spine is different and gaming chairs might have evolved in the last 2 years
that chair is likely over 500 dollars. gaming chairs are overrated most of the time, you can find cheaper and more comfortable options if you avoid using the "gaming" keyword and go with ergonomic instead. your 200 dollar price range is a decent start, but you might need to shell out a little more if you want something that is more adjustable aside from height.
Checkout Fibercommand Ultra-vision for the HDMI or display-port. Only cable I found that works 4k120 over 300ft for my gaming setup and the HDMI is removable for pulling through the wall which was convenient
Why you don't use the cable to get a new cable in? Just connect the that already in there and the new one. And jenk it. To replace it. And then the rgb box on the other side of the cable?
Nice set up linus! I bought the alienware qd oled and the screen had the bubble wrap coating damage. I ended up sending it back and bought the lg c2 42 as well! Rock on 🤘!
Would like to see a 6-month followup on the monitor, as somebody on the market and recently afflicted with OLED fever after buying an LG A2 48" for the living room 👀
A good mic for a little room without using a shotgun mic would be the icon pro in my opinion. I’d say the icon pro from about a foot away could perform better than the NTG8 when inside the house. I don’t have experience using the ntg8 though. I have however used the ntg2 and ntg3. They are small diaphragm condenser mics in a shotgun style. The icon pro is also a small diaphragm condenser but in a broadcast mic body.
I used to think the same, and then I have people give me hell for the things I have laying around. Like the 3 trucks that I haven't driven more than 10 miles in the last year, snowmobiles that run fine but are older and I consider useless, tools and more tools, guns that I haven't shot in 3 years because I forgot I had them, etc. The older one gets, the more stuff they acquire, and the less they remember. I'm about his age, and have acquired lots of random stuff, useful stuff, and useless stuff. Wouldn't know I had half of it unless I find it looking for something I probably threw out 5 years ago though.
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Dan continues to be my new favorite, he has such an air of confidence about him and a comforting presence. Like Dan shows up and you just know things are going to be fine.
He's the Harry to Linus' Marv.
@Олег Бёрт By following trades do you mean copying her trades,as its done in etoro? Are you giving her your money or the money stays on your account? I have heard about copying trades but have not looked into it but I have an idea of what it is.
the spam bots are evolving
I love his mysterious “I’m a serial killer” vibe.
@@person-yq8di yeah I even enjoy reading these fake conversations now.
Linus to Dan fixing the RGB strips:
"This is not a table, I was hoping to use this monitor for something"
Dan finding Linus in the next scene sitting on it:
"Ah, its a chair"
I can see an ltt store product akin to the cpu pillow but "the monitor box table/chair"
@@smellyfis omg you are onto something here
and when they go back to Dan he's still using a box as a table just a different box LOL
@@smellyfis I can dare to use monitor box with monitor in it as table but chair is another level of confidence. I guess it's a rich-goals
Comments never disappoint... coming here to type exactly this, lol 😄
Dude I seriously love Dan, he's my favorite crew addition in a very long time. I love his dry humor combined with his role as the resident problem fixer lol
Covid lockdown beard was the best decision linus made.
Agreed
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Linus!!! Just turn the key lights 180 and bounce them off the walls. You’ll get a much softer glow and shadow and way more even lighting. It’s such a simple fix. I’m not sure where along the lines people got the idea to beam the lights directly at your face 😅
Probably a habit from the studio, since that's how they do their studio lighting.
@@N0N0111 Ceiling down lights create unpleasant and harsh face shadows. Need diffuse light from the front, above the head level. So key lights bounce off the walls is a great solution.
Because those lights are designed to do EXACTLY that. And if you have dark walls, it REALLY doesn't work, even if the lights aren't designed like those key lights. I've also seen the people that do it that way, their lighting looks horrendous.
yep i just use a tiny like 10 watt LED desklamp and shine it straight at the ceiling and get diffuse white light throughout my room. saves power AND looks and feels better than the actual room light.
@@williameldridge9382 Do you know which lights those are?
Dan continues to be a favourite for me. He's like the incredibly patient, but long-suffering Dad, who just gets on with things
Great video, I just don't think you understood how the electrician wired your shelves. The electrician didn't do anything wrong, the ran low voltage wiring to every shelf space and on the other end(your closet space) you have all of your low voltage cables and a single nmd90 14/2 with merrets on the end. The idea is when you have decided on your driver, the electrician would mount the driver, dress and fasten the loose cables away from the water and gas lines and then make the necessary terminations.
Having diffusers already installed and with low voltage wips(length of cable located for terminating the strips)already in place, it was well thought out. I believe the receptacle is just for plugging in anything you want in. Ps you guys have an awesome show!😁
This is exactly what they did, exactly how it is done professionally, biggest complaint I have about dealing with customers like Linus is they think they know a lot more than they do and when looking at something that isn't finished they can jump to conclusions and come up with back assward solutions to solve the problem. A much simpler solution to this would be to buy the correct led tape lights and an LED controller that can control them all at once and be installed inside that small area where it was intended.
@@crunchbar777 Yes, the install is all wrong. From a professional theatre/film set lighting pov. Run 5 core to each shelf and have a small rack of RGBW controllers. City Theatrical make some really nice ones. OR use pixiel tape and map and control with a media server.
This dude Dan is a life saver! I love it when there are people around who you contact with a problem and they just come to you with a solution and carry it through. Props
Linus: “This is a monitor, not a table”
Also Linus: *Uses monitor as a chair*
thank you!
He sat on the box like he wants to make it a curved monitor in two different axis
lol
And uses a table like a chair
I screamed when i saw that
“Is that not already, like, a bar of diffused lighting or something?“
“No, this is a bar of being a bar.”
Linus’ banter is still top-tier, I see.
For the RGBs, using WLED on a QuinLED Dig and 12v sk6812 LED strip is my favorite setup so far! A Dig Uno can control ~500-600 pixels so you could most likely get the whole cabinet lit with one controller (depending on the strip density). Definitely worth checking out.
SK6812 are 5V. Any 5V strip would be fine as I assume he won’t care about individual pixels for a bookshelf. WLED would be way better than this though, I agree. Problems with large LED quantities would be 1) connecting them together as they’re not really wired for that and 2) power injection. He’d have been better off with some cheap WLED controllers like the Athom (the small one). It would be smaller and easier to hide than that massive box. I’d also have gone for a higher pixel density - 60/m minimum
Linus: "No Dan, thats not a table, thats a monitor, we need that"
Also Linus: *proceeds using it as a chair*
** Proceeds to use it as a chair
I think you had a stroke writing this, sir.
what do you mean he did use it as a chair
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23:26 is so hilarious.
"It's only about 190C so its not gonna start melting the plastic _yet_" - Lord Jank
Yeah that shit is a goddamn bomb lmao
@@MvsG18 yeah it’s probably a good idea to isolate that power brick
Maaan, if one random towel is dropped on that brick, they are gonna have a bad time. Not to mention a kid might touch that. I hope they really thought this through
@@SDinay It's going inside the wall of the cabinet lol that's not a problem
This whole taking LTT to the next level is so exiting. Love following the journey
Yeah, 100% exiting
Linus: *Gets on his employee's cases for all the stuff stolen from the office*
Also Linus: *Proudly talks about all the stuff stolen from work he's using in his upgraded setup*
Linus: "Why are you using this monitor as a table?"
Also Linus: *Uses the monitor as a chair*
This video was hilarious
Because he thinks he's better than them. Shame how so many workers support the petty bourgeoisie while they profit off them. All private businesses are unethical. Only three types of firm should exist, sole proprietorships, coops, and state enterprises.
its different when your you know the wowner of the office.
@@TimTams_64 shouldn’t be; private firms are unethical. All businesses should be coops or state owned
@@TimTams_64 also it’s not like any of that hardware is needed at the office on any sort of short notice
@@poiu477 "private firms are unethical. All businesses should be coops or state owned" god such a dumb statement
Awwww Linus! I do cabinetry lighting like this for a living. The contractor ALMOST had it nailed! You do want the aluminum tracks, you do want the wiring ran to a single location like it was, however, you wanted it to be an 18/3 cable (power, ground, and data). I like to run them to Quindig Controllers running WLED. Use BTF Lighting SK2812’s 60LED/M with warm white channel (you can make the color cooler by adding in the RGB combination if you need to). When you solder your wires to the RGBW strips, use 3/8” optically clear adhesive lined heatshrink to protect the solder joints. This clear heatshrink can cover the first LED in the strip just fine and won’t change the light pattern as its optically clear. Use Meanwell 5V PSU’s and you’d be set! You should look into it!!!!!
He paid a fortune on those zwave controllers. I dont think its wise to replace them with wifi controllers...
@@jpw5996 I would still sell them for half the price he paid for them and replace it all with a WLED setup instead. It's truly a no brainer. Not only that I'm pretty sure he used a zwave controller at each and every single strip. Where he probably could have used a couple ESP32 to control every strip in the unit. Wife didn't seem thrilled about seeing control boxes or power supplies in the cubbies. I would have also went with something much higher amps and not a brick like he purchased in case I wanted to add something else later on.
Not only that what kind of control will you get out of those zwave kits? I'm sure you can get it working with home assistant but what if you wanted to say add it into something through e1.31, DMX, UDP, or any lighting software like artemis, openrgb, etc?
I made myself a 10 port ARGB hub using WLED and ESP32 so i would have a hub i could connect 9 fans and my cooler ARGB independently controlled. This pairs nicely with my under desk strips, ceiling strips, and 3d printed ARGB signs. Heres my office using all WLED stuff. ruclips.net/video/LMyi9RYDg1Q/видео.html Ceiling lights were turned off because my camera was washed out with the light from it also.
@@krown466 Selling will be hard with all those plugs desoldered.
Also i dont think everybody needs the type of control you are speaking about.
Most people are fine with setting a color with alexa or their smartphone and leaving it at that. (we are not them and its fine, but you cant expect everyone to tinker with this that much.)
Not to mention the additional difficulties you have with going to 5V that other people already pointed out.
Linus said in the video he wont change the 2 pole cables, so it really isnt an option anyways...
@@jpw5996 if they’re straight into a cabinet behind that wall he may be able to tape on an 18/3 to the 2 wire and pull new wire straight in without any gutting. This is Linus I would assume he’d want patterns and effects and better integration than just a z-wave controlled basic single color setup.
@@krown466 you’re right, control it with HomeAssistant WLED integration and a zwave dongle to speak back to his switches or whatever other type of control schema he has....
If you want something fun since you're using Home Assistant to change your light colour, you CAN setup automations for your lights to be whatever colour you'd like and then use the Home Assistant API functions and your stream deck to call that automation to change your lights however you want while streaming 🙂
The problem with shotgun microphones for a desk setup, and something I wish was tested in the video, is that they will pick up keyboard noise. You can use something like Nvidia Broadcast to fix that but it's still not ideal since that affects your voice quality as well
The biggest problem with Nvidia Broadcast in my opinion is not the voice quality (because your voice is already compressed in Discord), it's the added latency. When I'm playing RL with comms, I disable my Nvidia Broadcast to reduce latency.
@@maxinoume Linus streams with this setup so quality does matter
I love all the LTT Folks, but since he's joined Dan has been my favorite. His energy is so great, and he's got great reactions to Linus
Linus yelling "who's my sponsor?" in absolute confusion is what imagine LTT intros will look like in 40 years.
Won’t exist
14:40 Probably the funniest pun reaction I have ever seen
Same😂
Linus I'd watch out for any tractors if I were you
I started streaming about a year ago, my partner does filming and editing and we are musicians with lots of equipment at home so I had a good choice of microphones and cameras. I straight away went with a smaller Rode NTG4+ microphone cause I knew I did not want a mic to be visible on camera or to be right in front of my face because I too fidget a lot during streams. I often get people commenting on how good my sound is and people amazed that there is no mic to be seen. I happen to use the same camera as Linus gets here, it's my partners main camera and it's amazing. We have a charger that goes into the battery slot as if you use just a charging cable whilst the battery is in I think it cuts that batteries life so this way it gets powered without the need for a battery. Super psyched to see Linus go with a similar set up to my own, highly recommend the microphone decision however there are much smaller boom style microphones such as the Rode NTG series that won't take up so much space. Also, what is a table?
Do you know what lens Linus is using?
I love the open, that was great! Linus must really be losing it with all the stuff going on all at once in his, and his families, life atm. Here's to hoping we have a sane Linus after the dust settled!
Just a heads up Linus. The AW3423DW has been having some relatively minor software problems. If you were sent the original firmware version MOB01, some people are having problems with the "pixel refresh" popup shutting off power to the display after it runs instead of going back to standby. It also counts standby time towards the refresh timer. So you can use the monitor for a bit, step away for a few minutes, monitor will go into standby and run pixel refresh, and then turn itself off. It will require you to hit the power button to turn it back on.
Dell originally was saying this was "intended" for power saving reasons, but then reneged on it and have fixed it in a newer firmware MOB02.
The problem is they have chosen not to provide a user side firmware update option with the monitor. The ONLY solution is to send the monitor back and get a replacement.
In a premium monitor from a premium company it's totally unacceptable to not allow user side firmware updates. This seems to be becoming more common.
Would love to see a video on some of these flaws and pressure Dell to cut it out and provide a user side firmware update option.
There's also fan noise on a lot of these (like clicking) that can be very noticeable in a quiet room. I've never heard of a monitor with fan noise. They say it's normal.
Otherwise it's the best monitor I've ever owned, plays incredible, looks incredible, but again at the price I don't expect these flaws and the no firmware updates thing is unacceptable.
www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/AW3423DW-please-let-us-update-firmware/td-p/8222694
@@jkteddy77 I did the return and they overnighted a new monitor to me. The software issues were fixed minus the not able to update thing. Problem I had with the new one is I have the fan noise problem. My original was actually silent. I don't want to return it again out of a similar fear to you that they send a refurb instead of new...
Use the existing in wall wiring to pull through a 6 conductor cable, even something like cat6, then solder the ends of the cat6 to the strips and have the control boxes in the closet. Gives the clean installation you're looking for and is fairly simple and straightforward.
I would have used bare ws2812b led strips with esp32's running WLED for the RGB strips. It's cheaper much more customizable controllable from home assistant locally and open source. For a kind of out of the box solution you can buy or build a quinLED board.
That's the part I also don't understand. It would have been the best solution. Especially with home assistant and having b everything locally.
This. I also just found out about WLED and i love it. very easy to install and customise and control over your WLAN. Also only needs 5V and only one microcontroller for like up to 4000 leds.
Only thing one should not forget ist to use fuses in front of any led segment (in general not just with WLED and ws2812b) since bigger power supplies internal fuse may not trip when a short inside the led strip occours -just to be on the safe side
@@z1dlukasw.666 Realistically you can do around 800 per port with 4 ports so 2400 before it is not abel to sustain the target 42 fps. And there is a limit of around 1200 LEDs if you use ledmaps for now in version 13.2.
@@patrickpopp9197 also completly true, the 4000 was more a theoretical max. it was just more or less to prove a point, that there is no need for a control box on every shelf whilst still keeping the control over each segment /shelf individually.
Yep, after doing a shitload of research last year, this is pretty much exactly what i landed on. The one thing that surprised me the most was how much Wattage you need to supply longer lengths of LED’s. kinda blew my mind.
for optical hdmi (2.1), I used a phoossno gen2 cable I grabbed off Amazon.
Comes in up to 20m, and the gen2 version will do 4K 120Hz + VRR with RTX 3000 series on my LG CX
How long
9:45 you made me so happy that I am not the only person using my fold as secondary display
That software for the tv has actually came in clutch! I have had that issue for a while and I stopped using my larger screen because of it.
Can we have the link please?
8:30 ofc it's curved, you sat on it
7:36 Linus goes, is this some kind of late April fools joke? No RGB?
Me, at 8:21: "Its not a Table, Its a chair"
Hey Linus, a good trick for streaming lights: bounce them off the wall. Much easier on the eyes, and a nice softer look.
Also, for indoors, I'd recommend a hyper-cardioid mic (looks like a short shotgun) like the Audio-Technica AT4053B.
SUPER GAMING HOUSE
I'm with Linus on this one. On my personal PC I like to just do one thing at a time as well. It's a habit from the old days when RAM was much more limited and CPUs were all single core, it was helpful to religiously close out programs that you weren't actively using. However, it also helps me focus on the thing I'm doing at the moment.
nah, even when gaming I like to have a guide, or maybe some podcast running on the second screen
I turn off my extra monitor when I'm playing a single player game, but if I'm playing multiplayer games I keep discord on my vertical side monitor. If I streamed I would definitely use my side monitor to do chat/obs/etc.
hope you have a good day LTT staff :D
Gg on first
You should have requested 2 core flex cable to each shelf. With a void where the cable comes through, so that you can crimp the flex cable onto the led tape ‘tails’ and then lose the excess cable and crimps into the void
I always forget when watching Linus he is a millionaire at least if not in the tens of millions of net worth but he still acts like a normal guy
Ah yes all my normal friends order $1000 monitors to AB test and scrutinize with their multi thousand dollar computers and cameras.
Just cracking a cold one with the relatable bois.
Well that’s his selling point. Why would he change the gimmick? U would unsubscribe
You are talking about a youtuber who purposefully modeled a professional studio to imitate a kitchen, so people feel like they are still filming in an actual kitchen ;))
@@kazioo2 see still ACTS like a normal guy even though he is not
The typical reason for not using shotgun microphones indoors is to prevent phase issues. The concept is similar to noise cancellation and the shotguns use this to create their narrow pickup pattern. The longer, the more extreme this effect. In a well treated and large room, this isn't a big issue, but I'd still use a small shotgun or even pencil style microphone for your use case instead.
Just like the other commenter Nils Gröne pointed out, those shorter mics will also give you a broader pickup area and allow you to move around more.
I would put the shotgun mic above your head pointing down. I think you get a better sound and it would clear up more space on the top of the desk! Then if you ever decide to put an extra LCD screen for group or live stream chats that would be a huge improvement upgrade in your setup. Just a suggestion!
Drill some holes so you can run one long strip through multiple shelf areas.
Also you've put that box in the top left corner, when the top right is far less visible.
Great video. I prefer the 34" ultrawide. TV's just don't cut it. I was regretting my 34" UW purchase when I saw some people using 43" top notch TV's instead, but after seeing sacrifices, I will stick with my 34" UW. I tried hooking it up to 65" 4k TV in living room just to see difference, and sat back appropriate distance, but I could not get used to it. The rest of your choices I agree with. But it's your setup, so it's your choice! Enjoy! You deserve it! (PS: I really like your planned family gaming room downstairs!)
lg c2 better
RGB strips seem like the easiest/simplest concept of a product, and yet it's ALWAYS a nightmare. I don't get it.
maybe Apple should start offering some
The fiasco with the hdmi cable is the most accurate representation of a room setup I’ve seen on RUclips.
Linus' face when he clicks onto the joke Plouffe makes at 14:39 is hilarious. Rewatched that bit 3 times.
As far as microphone goes, you should really look into a small diaphragm condenser microphone. This will do a better job at getting a more natural sounding reverb in the room without any coning effect. It will also allow you to have a little more freedom of movement and you want to be as still for to sound good
Yup. Small encil-style condensers are best way to go to get perfect audio indoors. Rode NT5, Oktava MK012 etc..
Shotguns is causing all phase issues indoors because of voice that is bouncing around. It is only suitable for long distance outdoor shooting when you want to grab audio from couple meters away.
@@AXYZE yeah, that's what I heard aswell.
Because the echo interferes with the attenuation
11:52 "room temperature iq" 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
4:51 Linus, congrats for your coming out.
The boxes could go on top of the shelf, the wire poking out down through the shelf feeding the led strip below it. Less visible boxes, minimal work
For the leds, I have a tip :) WLED Buuut it is for the hobbyist or a Dan to set it up. Not too difficult but you could make it completely perfect. Short leads and everything. One controller if you wanted to and just one power brick :)
You mean the microcontroller software and cell phone app? Yes that is great. I spent months writing my own and then discovered the excellent WLED project that was leaps and bounds above my own, so I just switched to that. For those wondering, you take an esp32 or esp8266 and you can even flash it from the browser (no idea how they managed that!) and then just pick a data pin(or several) and connect that to the data pin on the strand, the voltage goes to the led, check if your esp board can handle 12v Vin with it’s onboard 3.3 v regulator ( it might burn out trying to dump the extra voltage as heat) and you can power both, or get a $1 buck 12v to 5v or 3.3v converter to power the esp board. Requires no microcontroller knowledge at all, but perhaps a touch of very simple soldering.
Just what I was thinking, He really needs to be shown the world of WLED. I hope they stumble across your comment and look into it
Oh gosh just got to the end of the video, he has 10 different controller boxes. To adjust color/brightness for the whole wall will be such a hassle. Mine as well just have gone with the single color strip, the wife approval rating will drop to zero after learning how the RGB is adjusted.
It's too impractical, c'mon Linus!
@@altimmons Yep! Exactly! Tho I used a 5V rgbww strip instead. You can connect both to a simple 5V psu. Works like a charm. One thing that I would suggest is putting a fixed ip on the controller. Without, the controller sometimes bugs out and you lose your connection.
I also have seen people intergrate WLED with home assistant. But I'm not sure to what extent that is possible but for Linus's smart home that would also be a improvement as well.
(edit: grammer)
@@blakeXYZ Not just that but the interface that this is using, linus needed to adjust the numbers of the xolors to get a new color. That's soo much worse then wled. And probably less responsive not to mention the controllers you were talking about😂😂
Ok, I've never been more sold on OLED than after seeing the monitor from 10:12 onwards- in a best kind of sense, it looks like someone just pasted the screencap on a take from actual camera, no viewing angles, no glow... love it!
Shame I can't afford it but you know, details
you could also connect 5 wire to the 2 en pull them back to the closet(assuming they are wired in a tube)
To stop the HDMI ports breaking the best option, I think, is to cage the camera, then clamp the hdmi cable and use a male to female adapter like the SmallRig 3021 Micro HDMI 2.0 adapter. Having a permanent adapter attached to your camera will mean you break the $10 adapter well before you break the HDMI port, leaving the clamp to be your safety net for the Micro HDMI port on the camera
I love the nostalgic NCIX swag on the top shelf Linus. So many memories on Viking Way and Mayfield Place.
lmao my favorite Linus Tech Tips editor is Editor. He does such a good job, so happy he was credited at the end.
Important thing about 42" C2: it's actually not Evo even though box says otherwise. That's because most of this size C2s don't have Evo/WBE/EX panel but older WBC, there are some that does but to not have image discrepancy between two exact same tvs they are held back by software. To have newer panel without software holding back you have to go 55"+. On top of that 42" has lower aperture ratio which means it's even dimmer, it doesn't even reach 700 nits which combined with older panel which isn't really more resistant to burn in, means that Dell is probably much better choice. LG still has some advantages but if you want 42" WOLED there are many great alternatives on the market or coming in the near future.
"Evo" is not a type of panel, it's a combination of technologies.
HDTVtest made a video addressing this, give it a look! :)
@@smo7089 yeah I know, that's why I was also talking about WBE/EX
@G Money exactly
You should replace the lights with the Nanoleaf light strips
Dan really needs his own nerdy channel with really nerdy deep dives into stuff. Like soldering for nerds and stuff like that. He really does well on screen.
13:56 FYI @linus tech tips when pulling cable, add to to wire, cable, etc..another pull point “rope” so replaces one used & that way, ALWAYS WILL HAVE a way to pull, w/o removing a cable/wire especially if temp that lasts 6 months or more & then gotta pull another & no pull cable, b/c used & forget to pull another w/ last run😉
Linus at employee's homes: You totally stole this from the office.
Linus at home: So we're not using this at the office.
Yay! New house stuff! The house stuff, no matter the house, has always been the best part of this channel.
Im an absolute huge fan of LTT but seeing him use a $1k microphone for a gaming setup is pretty ridiculous.
@@nemiesis I mean it’s spare equipment from his production so I don’t see the issue tbh.
It’s not like anything in his setup is cheap
@@nemiesis thats literally the entire point on this channel.. overkill and ridiculous on many different levels.
that is your best transition into a sponsor yet I believe. well of the videos I have seen so far.
Do you regret not sticking with the Alienwear? I'm having a hell of a time deciding. The C2 is only 799$ right now too!!
It’s a great buy
Asus 138hz 48" oled is way better and brighter full screen.
@@4gbmeans4gb61 way too big
@@terria8825 lol not when you use a 90”x40” butcher block for a desk. After using it a few weeks, best thing I ever bought. Coming from a 34” ultras wide predator.
@4GB MEANS 4GB that's a big desk. Lol
"it's been kicking around" is a great euphemism for "I stole this from the office"
10:27 Me watchin on a LCD phone: “Yes, much vibrance”
surprised not looking at WLED, and buying addressable RGB, hook them up to either esp8266 or esp32. All controllable via phone app or web interface.
8:21 Linus: “ The monitor is not a table”.
Also Linus: proceeds to sit on the monitor
I love how linus just sat on his adjustable desk just to set up his camera and talk about it
I just do not understand how you spend ten thousand dollars on this and won't spend a fraction more to get something made by Herman Miller.
I work and play from home, at the same desk with the help of a USB peripheral switcher. I can (and, unfortunately/fortunately, do) often end up sitting in my Aeron for 12 hours of my waking hours without discomfort.
...and Linus is putting up with "My butt falls asleep after about an hour."
I'd rather play on a 10 year old PC with my current chair than a 1-month old PC with the trash he's going to sit on.
id say that rgb isnt that much of a deal unlike back in the early days, its more on accent lighting and or just 1 or 2 colors in the background now. ya know, minimalist
I think it’s funny how he give all his employ’s a hard time for having things from the office in there house in the intel extreme upgrades but everything in his house is from the office…
he owns the office dawg. there is a difference.
17:45 why not just use (or make, you have the budget for that) some kind of tiny dongle that you leave ON the camera and plug the external monitors into that ? at least only the dongle will fail over time and not the actual port on the camera
On the multiple monitors at home thing. I was always a 2, 3 or even 4 monitor guy. I felt like I *needed* that many monitors to fit everything in. Then my work bought me a 32:9 monitor and paired with PowerTools Fancyzones for snapping, my goodness I never want to go back to multiple monitors. It is SO nice to have everything on one monitor.
Need "port savers" for your cameras. Short adapter cables that get attached/glued whatever that don't get plugged/unplugged from the camera, but can be plugged into. If the port saver cable wears out it can easily be replaced then (one plug/unplug cycle on the camera vs 1000s)
I went with a pencil mic for my setup. It's similar to a shotgun in that it much more directional and can be placed farther away from your face, but made more for indoor applications, since it doesn't have all those side fins to pick up (and, in practice, reject) off-axis sounds, which is what a shotgun mic does. You just put a foam filter on it to avoid plosives, in case you ever talk directly towards it, and you're good to go. If you like to ASMR, or talk intimately with your friends, you stick a deadcat on that bad boy and you're golden. Though, it does SLIGHTLY muffle your voice.
His face at 9:36 hahahahahaha
😂
Keep up the good work ❤️
Omgawd the kids are so cute! The littlest one is Yvonne with Linus's hair 😭
2:51 finally linus steal something from office
I was like... That monitor does look nice! Let me look at it... I saw the price and remembered I'm not a CEO of a media company.
It's not a cheap monitor, but it's like half the price of existing proper HDR LCD monitors, so it was still a big step forward in that regard. It also looks like it's forced upcoming HDR LCD monitors to charge far less than they could have a year or two ago, when monitors like the ASUS PG32UQX could get away with charging $3,000 USD.
23:10 daaaam daniel, back at it again with them white LED's.
That gaming chair looks comfortable compared to me sitting on a regular chair. Is it worth spending $200?
I have not tried the secret lab chair, but most gaming chairs i have tried actually are pretty bad, for that money you can usually get an office chair with proper lumbar support instead of the janky adaptation most gaming chairs have
But again every spine is different and gaming chairs might have evolved in the last 2 years
@@a3-radio
I definitely want an office chair for my computer.
that chair is likely over 500 dollars. gaming chairs are overrated most of the time, you can find cheaper and more comfortable options if you avoid using the "gaming" keyword and go with ergonomic instead. your 200 dollar price range is a decent start, but you might need to shell out a little more if you want something that is more adjustable aside from height.
@@yungbroc
Definitely will look for a cheaper alternative. $500 is crazy
just put the desk over your bed and you dont have to spend money on a chair
Checkout Fibercommand Ultra-vision for the HDMI or display-port. Only cable I found that works 4k120 over 300ft for my gaming setup and the HDMI is removable for pulling through the wall which was convenient
The table becomes a chair XD
Wouldn't it have been easier to just set up a blank screensaver that activates after X minutes of inactivity?
Why bother with the C2 when the Sony 42A90K QD-OLED is available?
Why you don't use the cable to get a new cable in? Just connect the that already in there and the new one. And jenk it. To replace it. And then the rgb box on the other side of the cable?
Turns out the boss steals more from the office than anyone else
Get well soon house gaming setup
Nice set up linus! I bought the alienware qd oled and the screen had the bubble wrap coating damage. I ended up sending it back and bought the lg c2 42 as well! Rock on 🤘!
Moments Ago:
Linus: This is not a table.
Now:
Linus:This is a chair.
Actually works.. Just disable the real time protection in Setting. Wasnt sure that it would work .Awesome bruh..
Would like to see a 6-month followup on the monitor, as somebody on the market and recently afflicted with OLED fever after buying an LG A2 48" for the living room 👀
A good mic for a little room without using a shotgun mic would be the icon pro in my opinion. I’d say the icon pro from about a foot away could perform better than the NTG8 when inside the house. I don’t have experience using the ntg8 though. I have however used the ntg2 and ntg3. They are small diaphragm condenser mics in a shotgun style. The icon pro is also a small diaphragm condenser but in a broadcast mic body.
I’m sorry to hear this man, sending love and prayers I hope it get better soon.
I'm always jealous of Linus when he has such cool things just "laying around" 😅
I used to think the same, and then I have people give me hell for the things I have laying around. Like the 3 trucks that I haven't driven more than 10 miles in the last year, snowmobiles that run fine but are older and I consider useless, tools and more tools, guns that I haven't shot in 3 years because I forgot I had them, etc.
The older one gets, the more stuff they acquire, and the less they remember. I'm about his age, and have acquired lots of random stuff, useful stuff, and useless stuff. Wouldn't know I had half of it unless I find it looking for something I probably threw out 5 years ago though.
Linus: why do my employees steal so much shit from the office!?
Also Linus: literally builds a new gaming setup using only shit from the office.
You can get a cage and cable clamp for those Sony cameras that help protect the HDMI port.
Linus: 'This box is not a table 😤'
Also Linus: 'box is seat'